Hi, Mulyadi 2011/9/27 Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>: > simply to say that, the more important a job is, it should be given > longer time to run... but, the process has privilege to yield before > time slice is up...and when it comes back,it will use the remaining > time slice.....and its dynamic priority will stay the same (that's the > property that I recall....) > > well, you can think, what happen if you take the other direction for > the policy? higher priority, but less time slice? that, IMHO, is less > intuitive. > Initially, I think that the scheduler should enlarge the timeslices of CPU-bound processes to improve throughput. But, now I have realized that the two goals of schedulers, namely shorter latency and higher throughput, can not be achieved at the same time. Linux scheduler may prefer to the former. Thanks! :-) _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
